Opus Of The Night (Ghost Requim) · Kamelot

285 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 5:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 29-35, and 17 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
OPUS OF THE NIGHT (GHOST REQUIM) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 50 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 24-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

285 bars across 17 sections: 161 keep time, 56 are fills, 32 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 167-179.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
10 groovesCAHWS17+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Opus Of The Night (Ghost Requim)?

160 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Opus Of The Night (Ghost Requim) hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Opus Of The Night (Ghost Requim)?

19 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED
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